Agence France-Presse
2009-09-03
U.S. authorities said yesterday they have flown home and will charge three U.S. men accused of sexually abusing children in Cambodia, vowing renewed effort to stop U.S. pedophiles from heading there. The three men arrived in Los Angeles on Monday ahead of an initial court appearance on Tuesday.
2009-09-03
U.S. authorities said yesterday they have flown home and will charge three U.S. men accused of sexually abusing children in Cambodia, vowing renewed effort to stop U.S. pedophiles from heading there. The three men arrived in Los Angeles on Monday ahead of an initial court appearance on Tuesday.
The men each face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
The men include Arizona resident Jack Louis Sporich, 75, who is accused of sexually abusing at least one underage Cambodian boy.
Prosecutors, quoting a non-governmental group that spoke to witnesses, said Sporich would often drop money on the streets to attract children as he rode his motorbike through Siem Reap, the city near the famed Angkor Wat temple. California resident Erik Leonardus Peeters, 41, was accused of having sex with at least three Cambodian boys, paying each minor between US$5 and US$10. Ronald Gerard Boyajian, 49, also from California, allegedly engaged in sexual activity with a 10-year-old Vietnamese girl in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, prosecutors said.
Officials said the arrests were the first under a new initiative launched dubbed "Twisted Traveler," under which U.S. federal authorities are working with Cambodian police to prosecute pedophiles.
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